2016年、イケてる企業TOP50 from MIT tech. review

1 Amazon
Why
Call out a request and AI-powered Alexa will play your favorite song or order you a pizza. And Amazon Web Services just keeps growing.

$89.99
What the Echo Dot, the most affordable device to feature Alexa Voice Service, sells for.

2 Baidu
Why
China’s leading search engine is developing autonomous cars, backed by a big research and engineering team in Silicon Valley.

100
Baidu plans to employ more than 100 autonomous-car researchers and engineers in California by year’s end.

3 Illumina
Why
The world’s largest DNA-sequencing company is moving beyond simply selling equipment to expand its uses: a company it’s launching, Grail, intends to develop a blood test that would screen for cancer before symptoms appear.

$2.2 billion
Revenue reached last year, up 19 percent from the previous year.

4 Tesla Motors
Why
While advancing autopilot technology in its Model S and X cars, the company is taking electric vehicles mainstream with its $35,000 Model 3 car, which already has 400,000 pre-orders.

50 percent
According to CEO Elon Musk, drivers have a 50 percent lower chance of having an accident when driving with Tesla Autopilot.

5 Aquion Energy
Why
Its innovative batteries for the power grid make this startup unusually successful in a tough industry.

Backers
Include Bill Gates, Shell.

6 Mobileye
Why
A leader in making driver assistance technology such as collision warning systems for clients including Tesla, General Motors, and Volkswagen, among others, it is working on advances that will enable fully autonomous cars.

600
Number of employees who are annotating the images used to train its autonomous driving system.